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Did you consider the tiny people are always there? The mushroom just lifts the veil from your consciousness, allowing you to see them.
I mean, we absolutely could test this experimentally, depending on the nature of these hypothetical beings.
For example, you could give multiple participants these mushrooms. Bring them into a sealed room one by one. Ask them to report the number of tiny beings around them. Ask them to politely ask the tiny beings to remain where they are.
Imagine if you cycled ten participants through, and each told you there were precisely 11 little humans in the room. With simple methods like this, you could apply statistical hypothesis testing to the results and see if the success rates differs significantly from chance. You absolutely could do real science on this. Science is perfectly capable of testing certain kinds of supernatural claims. Science would have a very hard time trying to determine what happens after death, if anything. But invisible tiny people inhabiting our reality, that we can miraculously see if we do one very specific thing? That's absolutely testable using the scientific method.
Yes, use scientific method or Sagan's baloney detection kit! Maybe a study that checks brainwaves to see what areas are active during the experiment and see what happens, measurable things in the tests and in the control group to study it.
Lilliputian hallucinations refer to the perception of small beings, often resembling tiny humans or animals, that appear to interact with the real world. These hallucinations can occur from this shroom, certain neurological disorders and alcohol withdrawal. Lilliputian.
What if each person hallucinates a number of tiny people per square meter so everyone would see equally amount because of the inherent size of the room? What's the next step to determine they're real? Different sized rooms?
we can cross that bridge when we come to it...
Yes, Jonas, we considered that.
Aha. That's what my kitten loses her mind about and starts chasing.
Kitty greebles are little peoples?
The second season of Common Side Effects is only three months away! I'm not normally that interested in animated shows, but I'm very excited for this one.
If you've not seen it, the first (and only, sadly) season of Scavengers Reign is also excellent.
Scavengers Reign is also excellent.
It is! Really a must watch for anyone who likes old European style animated science fiction (Mœbius and the like), I'd say.
Reminded me of The Masters of Time, which I think might have traumatized me a bit after catching it on TV as a (probably too young) kid, and only recently rediscovered, from a YouTube video of all places, after having forgotten about it for decades.
named after the miniature inhabitants of "Gulliver's Travels," who stand just 6 inches tall
Ok, suuuuuper awkward thing to say here but... my penis is precisely one Lilliputian tall, which I understand to be just about average
Also, in Romanian, "puța" means penis
Are there other languages with a similar word for penis? Did Jonathan Swift know this? Was this deliberate? Are the Lilliputians really just "Lil' dicks" ?
EDIT: Has John Oliver already done this? I feel like John Oliver has already done this
Are they blue?
Psychedelics are about set and setting. Tell people what they expect to see and they will see that.
IIRC, this one in particular causes the exact same effect no matter the cultural background of the subject, even when the subject is going in blind to the exact effects.
Yeah, uh, not so much. I've heard of plenty of mushroom and acid trips that I've never experienced. Would be nice though, I'd love to know what the color Purple sounds like.
I think it hits people differently. I had a acid trip once where it was an out of body experience. I had like daredevil vision at a pink floyd tribute concert. I could see the entire venue from any perspective from where i was standing. Sounds crazy but that was my experience.
Sure, I'm just saying ive never had some crazy hallucination just because I was expecting to.
Can the tiny people see us too?
Oooh yes they can...
Ive done enough drugs in my life to kill a rhino and in all my trips ive never hallucinated more than visual trails and lights. This has me intrigued.
The most intense hallucination I've ever experienced by a wide margin was from salvia, which is legal for some fucking reason. Literally everything I could see and hear wasn't real. I guess I'm glad I did it but I think I'm not going to do it again. Thankfully is only lasts a few minutes.
Edit: during my trip, I realized that the entire world was passing by in frames just like a movie and I fell out of the frame I was in. I had fallen outside of my dimension and there were a handful of other ramenshaman that had also fallen out and we started desperately trying to crawl back into out frames. Then the universe started folding and I was afraid I was going to be crushed in the crease of the fold.
Man it's always layers of reality peeling away or something like that with Salvia, I've heard that same sort of trip story many times. It's wild that so many have similar experiences with a hallucinogen.
Follow up from the other comment. That sounds like a good one! Intense as fuck for sure... I got "rolled up in a carpet" as the world unraveled one time.
Before reading this, I was going to share something about salvia as well. Its the only drug where I had actual real life hallucinations. Once after smoking it, my living room was filled with friends in a party/birthday setting (I was actually alone at that moment).
Man I just thought I can't imagine doing salvia alone. Then came to the realization you're basically doing salvia alone every single time. With other halucinagynics you often have shared hallucinations or at least thoughts and experiences with the people you're partaking with but with salvia the minute you hit it you're on your own on a very personal journey.
I was at a party ~25 years ago and there were kittens running around. At some point, it became unclear to me which of the kittens were real. Some definitely were, but I was sometimes unsure if what was running around me was actual kitten or hallucinated kitten. That's probably the furthest gone I'd been and I still was able to understand that this was the situation. I also did a lot of stuff back then (and don't touch anything these days).
Is it hallucination or ability?
I have so many questions, the article focuses on the mushroom builogy and moves past the hallucinations pretty quick. What are these tiny people doing, do they see you, are they people or something else, do you get egfects as other hallucinations or just the tiny people? The effects of LSD and mushrooms are similar enough you recognize the sensation, is this something wholly different? I need answers!
Also, if two people in the same room eat the undercooked mushrooms do they see the same population of little people or different populations of little people. If it's a shared experience this raises some serious existential questions, otherwise I'd chalk it up to brains are crazy.
It’s BS. There are no trip reports. I know the connesuierr drug community would buy this just to attempt seeing the little people. Can’t find a single person who says “I did this and it was….”
The animated TV show Common Side Effects has a similar underlying plot with people who take a specific shroom. They haven't exposed what they do, but everyone who takes it sees them.
Season 2 in late January
The trip to Lilliput sounds fun. The return trip through the ER, not so much.
I find this sketchy. There would be reports on erowid or bluelight and there are none. I think this is bs
It hasn't been widely available in the west and needs to be rather fresh. Heat destroys this particular effect of the mushroom,for example.
Hard to believe, yes. But very real. University of Utah published some research on this last year, I am fairly certain. Check it out. Really amazing
Common Side Effects
~~Mildly~~ Extremely Interesting